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by eqdw 8y ago
Do you seriously think that taking an ethics course in college would be the difference between a world where programming is used as a weapon and a world in which it's not? Man if only we could make all our political science grads take
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by eqdw 8y ago
How is Wisconsin on the hook for billions of dollars if all they did was _not_ collect taxes? They shouldn't be able to be on the hook for anything if that's all they did. You sure they didn't get some kind of kickbacks as we
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by eqdw 8y ago
Wait are you serious or is this incredibly subtle sarcasm?
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by eqdw 8y ago
I'm a strong proponent of hallucinogens, and in general agree with you, but two years ago a close friend of mine did mushrooms, and it generated profound, negative, permanent changes to his mental health. IDK if they caused it, or if i
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by eqdw 8y ago
tl;dr: the most important code I ever wrote saved us millions of dollars by setting `disabled="disabled"` on an html element I don't know if this is the correct measure for "most important" but it is provably and me
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by eqdw 8y ago
Underground parking structures cost something on the order of 5x as much as aboveground parking structures. And aboveground parking structures are already ungodly expensive. One example given from The High Cost Of Free Parking (which is an
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by eqdw 8y ago
I saw this, and I figured this was probably my best bet, but I was hoping to have an actual lawyer confirm. In any case, looks like I can get a lifetime hunting license from the state of Texas for about $1000 (+ whatever I have to do to act
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by eqdw 8y ago
It's not about citizen vs noncitizen, it's about the fact that I'm on a non-immigrant visa specifically. People holding, eg., H1Bs would not be subject to this constraint as far as I know
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by eqdw 8y ago
Hi Peter, I am a Canadian citizen in the US on a TN temporary non-immigrant visa. I live with a girlfriend, who is quite interested in marksmanship. As I understand it, non-immigrant resident non-citizens are essentially barred from owning
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by eqdw 8y ago
I have evidence to suggest that I have been subjected to illegal hiring discrimination in the past. However, I'm not going to share my story because I know a ton of HN people will defend the discrimination as justified (even though it&
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by eqdw 8y ago
Yeah it feels like they want medals for getting rejected at companies that haven't even bothered to give me a callback. We all get rejected from dozens of interviews. That's just life. Did anybody ever think it wasn't like th
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by eqdw 8y ago
Invest in the safest assets that you can think of. If they pay 3% interest, you have a $240k salary for the rest of your life. 3% is a conservative estimate
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by eqdw 8y ago
A while back I worked at a company I really liked. I made lots of good friends there and it was, I think, the best time in my life to date. A few days before I left that company, people have taken me out for farewell drinks. We hang out unt
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by eqdw 8y ago
The April 22nd attack was the thing that drove me to pull the trigger on my plans to leave the bay area. I was not going to live in a place where the local authorities were unwilling or unable to keep me safe to that degree. I'm glad t
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by eqdw 8y ago
Meanwhile, on Monday https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/apps-public-v...
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by eqdw 8y ago
Most tech offices (google included) already give all employees free access to legal resources. It's called an EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
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by eqdw 8y ago
It is equal parts concerning and hilarious to me that actions taken at Burning Man are punished by an employer. 3/4ths of the tech industry would lose their jobs if such a rule was applied consistently
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by eqdw 8y ago
Strong disagree. The farther I get into my career the more Dilbert feels like exactly my current experience.
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by eqdw 8y ago
I've been binge watching all of south park for the past few weeks and it has definitely changed, along the same lines as people are saying about the Simpsons. It has not gotten worse. In fact, I think it is better than when it first st
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by eqdw 8y ago
I've been denied entry in the past because I was insufficiently precise when writing down a date in my paperwork. They can deny for any arbitrary reason, or no reason at all!
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by eqdw 8y ago
> Obviously, the general public doesn't want to fly with pilots that are high in more than one way. To hear my uncle tell it, I've got some _really_ bad news for Canadians about the prevalence of alcoholism amongst pilots. Acc
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by eqdw 8y ago
They're in the US.
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by eqdw 8y ago
The reason I slack people who are ten seconds walk from my desk is mostly because, if I walk up to them and talk to them, I'm generating noise which will disrupt the other hundred people in my open plan office
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by eqdw 8y ago
At a previous office we did a survey regarding our open office space. The answers were extremely polarized, with about half the office loving them and half the office hating them. The separation was pretty clean: people whose jobs involved
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by eqdw 8y ago
A lot of us _aren't_ being _actively_ targeted by Three Letter Agencies, but are concerned about being passively targetted
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by eqdw 8y ago
How to stop the decline of public transport in rich countries: 1) Allow transit systems to provide a luxury tier of service with no upper limit on price 2) Mandate that 100% of the money that comes from (1) has to be pumped back into expand
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by eqdw 8y ago
Straight up: If recycling things was valuable, recyclers would be paying people for their recyclable goods, independent of what trash collection does. Recycling may be the best option for the environment, but economically it's somewher
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by eqdw 8y ago
I think that he is probably playing up threats like that in order to distract from what appear to be systemic problems at Tesla. But, to be blunt, I've seen what organized activists in the bay area are both willing and able to do, and
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by eqdw 8y ago
I'm getting more and more disappointed in Apple's hardware, but OSX is still better than any other OS out there by a mile. I'm feeling conflicted about this. I have an emojibar Macbook pro. Since getting it shortly after they
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by eqdw 8y ago
And then people continue to wonder why Americans would prefer private vehicle transit to public mass transit

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